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What’s the difference between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh? This query is not about their politics. It’s about their food. Pandit Nehru didn’t have to worry about the food he was eating. It was 100% safe. Agricultural experts began to recommend the use of poisonous chemicals in agriculture from 1966 onwards when […]
Whoever thought that salt would one day be considered a bad thing! There is so much of salt in us: our tears are salty and our blood tastes salty as well. The saltiness in human body fluids in fact parallels the saltiness of the ocean. So why are doctors and health experts advising us to […]
Despite all the technologies and gadgets available to human beings, they still depend almost wholly on services provided by nature. This is not commonly or adequately perceived or readily accepted because both formal education and urban life-styles do not encourage either active interaction with mother nature or respect for her ways.
One of the most refreshing drinks that one can have any time is a good cup of tea. We enjoy drinking tea. We enjoy serving it often. Choosing a good tea however is almost like having Cable TV: there are just too many choices. A new class of teas called green teas has now moved […]
Seeds and eggs have one thing in common: they are nature’s most perfect blends of growth food. How come? Well, both have to look after themselves for all their needs. The seed must have everything it needs to survive till it can send its roots into the soil and its first leaves into the sunlight. […]
I am not here to add any new facts to the millions of facts you’ve been getting into your heads from the age of 3 or 4. I do not attend seminars as a matter of routine. I do not know how people like you can sit for the whole day listening to a whole […]
More than a decade ago, Bhavani (Holly) Lev of Organic India from Lucknow – one of the producers of the finest range of organic tulsi teas worldwide – asked me if I could locate some “cold-pressed” edible oil for her. I tried, I couldn’t. Today the situation is vastly different and one can get a […]
I visited Beijing in 2007, a year prior to the Olympics, and then again last week. The transformation of this gigantic city is clearly impressive. This is the capital of the world’s most populated nation so its scale will naturally be vast. But like the outward demeanour of the Chinese people themselves, there is little […]
It’s advisable sometimes to stop awhile and make a list of the things we’ve downloaded into our tummies on any single day simply to check the ingredients. How much of what we consumed that day was processed food and how much unprocessed? You may be shocked to know the results of your self-test. Our bodies […]
Almost the first thing you have to do when you step outside Seoul’s Incheon international airport is to learn how to bow. Your hosts bow to you, you bow to them. You hand out your visiting card, with the left hand holding the elbow of the right and then you bow again. You bow to […]